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For some idiots, there just aren't enough guns on university campuses
The Manchester Guardian ^
| January 15, 2014
| Professor Diane Roberts
Posted on 01/15/2014 4:53:56 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
American universities are places of art and music, gleaming labs and fine old buildings, famous libraries and fancy football stadiums, old traditions and new thinking, beauty, youth and brains about everything you could want. Except guns. Apparently, there just aren't enough guns in those ivy-covered halls.
Never fear: second amendment fundamentalists mean to correct what they see as the sad paucity of weapons on campus. In Florida, a gaggle of true believers calling themselves Florida Carry busies itself arguing that institutions of higher learning have no right to ban guns on their taxpayer-funded property. I mean, why wouldn't you want to pack heat in a class like Organic Chemistry II? Florida Carry's attack is gradual: last year they prevailed in a suit to let students at the University of North Florida stash guns in their cars; this year, they're aiming to force the University of Florida to allow its 50,000 students to keep guns in their dormitories.
Genius! Imagine: students living six to a hutch, hopped up on Red Bull, vodka, stress, lust, Adderall, Spicy Chipotle BBQ Doritos, MIA and Grand Theft Auto 5. Now add a few .38s and maybe a deer rifle or two. The stakes in those passionate late-night debates over the origin of the universe suddenly get a lot higher.
Of course, Florida is no stranger to gun controversies. George Zimmerman killed Trayvon Martin for walking while hoodied....
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: banglist; college; education; florida
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The rhetoric of this diatribe is over-the-top funny!
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posted on
01/15/2014 5:08:24 PM PST
by
Darteaus94025
(Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
To: lentulusgracchus
I said big, not biggest. LOL.
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posted on
01/15/2014 5:08:47 PM PST
by
Lurker
(Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Who still carries a .38?Me. They are comfortable, light and reliable.
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posted on
01/15/2014 5:09:44 PM PST
by
Ghost of SVR4
(So many are so hopelessly dependent on the government that they will fight to protect it.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
"She broadcasts regularly for the BBC and National Public Radio in America, and writes for newspapers such as the Washington Post, the New York Times and the St Petersburg Times." She really ought to get out more. Sounds like the hypoxia is starting to get to her.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Where’s the barf alert? I almost lost my dinner.
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posted on
01/15/2014 5:10:14 PM PST
by
deputytess
(Men of the West .....stand and FIGHT!)
To: Lurker
Oh, my. Well, how do you convince her you’re really glad to see her? ;)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Wow, the college I went to in the early 80’s had a range in the basement of one of the buildings. I would go out to the parking lot before class, get my .22 pistol, and go shoot. No SWAT teams ever showed up or were called.
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posted on
01/15/2014 5:10:52 PM PST
by
Clay Moore
("To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." ~Voltaire)
To: TigersEye
Diane, you are either a liar or a moron. Which is it? Liar. She knows better. Hell, so does everybody, even the liars who are lying about it.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
And some people just can’t stop themselves from shooting their arguments in the knees.
What I read in the excerpt was ALL emotion and emotional triggers. And for me, that was enough to not read any further and just turned her right off.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Who still carries a .38? Guess she's hooked on reruns of Andy Griffith, Dragnet and Highway Patrol.
A backup piece in the ankle holster.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Children Against Gun Control:
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posted on
01/15/2014 5:15:05 PM PST
by
Darteaus94025
(Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
To: Lurker
To: TigersEye
Diane, you are either a liar or a moron. Which is it? Why pick, I tend to think she is both based on the article.
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posted on
01/15/2014 5:16:49 PM PST
by
verga
(Poor spiritual health often leads to poor physical and mental health)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
So far it seems those that don’t believe in Gun Free Zone signs have all the guns.
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posted on
01/15/2014 5:17:59 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
("How Can People Ask Forgiveness If They Won't Forgive Others?")
To: Billthedrill
Im guessing Professor Roberts field isnt history.Or logic. She's just an anti-2nd fundamentalist, though, so what can we expect?
To: 2ndDivisionVet
According to "Professor" Diane Roberts it is so much more dignified and morally superior to be unarmed and murdered in a gun free zone than to be armed and fight back.
FN idiot b!tch.
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posted on
01/15/2014 5:20:14 PM PST
by
metalurgist
( Want your country back? It'll take guns and rope. Marxists won't give up peaceably.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
American universities are places of art and music, gleaming labs and fine old buildings, famous libraries and fancy football stadiums, old traditions and new thinking, beauty, youth and brains about everything you could want. And being gun free zones they are also excellent hunting grounds for rapist and muggers.
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posted on
01/15/2014 5:20:20 PM PST
by
Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
As long as there are liberals, real Americans will need guns for protection. You can never housebreaking a rabid animal.
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posted on
01/15/2014 5:24:13 PM PST
by
Caipirabob
(Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I cary a Colt Detective Special in an ankle holster as a back-up.The Gold Dot loads will do a lot of damage up close.
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posted on
01/15/2014 5:24:21 PM PST
by
Farmer Dean
(stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
To quote Heinlein:
‘An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.’
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posted on
01/15/2014 5:24:47 PM PST
by
x1stcav
("The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.")
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